Research and news

The Dipole ML Inc. newsroom carries launches, benchmark results, and engineering notes from a Canadian frontier AI lab. Stories are sorted into four kinds: research, product, developers, and company news. Each one opens with a short summary and its key facts, and says when it was first published and last updated.

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Three product marks side by side on a light ground: DCode's disc first and largest, then the Cursor logo and the GitHub Copilot logo.

DCode vs Cursor vs Copilot: why we side with the agent

Autocomplete, the AI-first editor, or the full agent: a straight comparison of the three philosophies of AI-assisted coding, written by the people who built the third one.

A terminal window with two commands, npm install -g @dipoleml/dcode-cli and then dcode, beside the Raven Flash input price of $0.50 per 1M tokens and the DCode disc.

npm install and go: the DCode CLI and the real cost of the DipoleML API

A drawn browser window, the Raven app icon on its active tab and a padlock in its address bar, with a pointer clicking a button on the page; beside it, a puzzle piece struck through.

Why Raven works in a real browser instead of plugins

A drawn browser frame holding a sign-in form, the username filled in and the password shown as dots with the cursor in it, a passkey button and a check button; beside it, the Raven app icon with a pause badge.

How Raven hands you the browser to sign in

Three drawn screens, a browser window, a laptop and a phone, each showing the Raven app icon, with the names Web, Windows and macOS, and Android beneath them.

One account, every screen: Raven on the web, desktop, and your phone

The Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the Peace Tower under a deep blue sky, beside a checklist of five ticked lines marked two minutes.

How we protect your data: a two-minute privacy check before you paste

The Raven app icon beside a card of memory rows drawn as lines, one memory per line, each with a small pencil and a bin, under a switch that is on.

Raven remembers: account-level memory you can open, edit, or delete

The Raven app icon beside four drawn files with folded corners, labelled .pptx, .docx, .pdf and .xlsx; the .pptx file, first and in blue, shows a small slide with a bar chart.

Ask Raven for a deck, and get a real .pptx file

A report card of drawn text lines under the Raven app icon, three of its lines ending in citation markers 1, 2 and 3, each joined by a fine line to its own numbered source card.

Deep research with receipts: how Raven reads the web and cites its sources

Three price tiles: under the Raven icon, Raven $0, Raven Pro $20 and Raven Ultra $100; under the DCode disc, the DCode Coding Plan at $29; under our d.. mark, the API from $5.

How we priced Raven: free to start, $20 Pro, and credits that never expire

The Raven app icon at the centre of one conversation with four people, drawn as avatar circles with initials and joined to it by fine dotted lines, one of them sending an @Raven mention.

A whole team, one AI: shared chats that feel like sitting at the same desk

The Raven app icon beside a chat link drawn as a long chip with a chain-link glyph and a small lock, and under it four overlapping avatar circles with initials, each with a green presence dot.

Share a chat like a doc: links, permissions, and who's in the room

A large golden badge with a tick, beside the three Founding Member prices for the first year: Raven Pro $160 instead of $200, Raven Ultra $800 instead of $1,000, and DCode $230.

Introducing the Founding Member cohort: first-year annual pricing and a golden badge

Two white tiles side by side: the red maple leaf of the flag of Canada on one, our d.. mark on the other.

Why Canada needs its own frontier AI lab

The figure 1M in very large type, the context window of Raven Max and Raven Flash, beside 128K, their output limit, in smaller blue type, over a long strip of small page blocks, with the Raven app icon.

A million tokens of room to think: what big context is actually for

Three drawn tiles: Raven Max and Raven Flash over lines of reasoning that come before the darker lines of the answer; a stack of storage disks with a lock; lines of web text under a blue shield.

Inside the Raven system: reasoning you can read, storage that is encrypted

Our d.. mark beside two code tiles: the OpenAI Python SDK with base_url="https://api.dipoleml.com/v1" and the Anthropic Python SDK with base_url="https://api.dipoleml.com".

The DipoleML API: native compatibility with the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs

The DCode disc beside 1.0 in large type, with four small tiles for what the release shipped: macOS, Windows, a >_ terminal prompt and MCP.

DCode 1.0 Generally Available: The Agentic Development Environment with Native MCP

Raven Flash's score on AutomationBench, 49.2, in large blue type under the Raven icon, beside a bar chart of the benchmark: Raven Flash's bar in blue and tallest, the models it was compared with in grey.

Raven Flash Performance Report: #1 on AutomationBench and Terminal Bench 4.0

Raven Max's score on Agent's Last Exam, 39.5, in large blue type under the Raven icon, beside a bar chart of the benchmark: Raven Max's bar in blue and tallest, the models it was compared with in grey.

Evaluating Raven Max: #1 on Terminal Bench 4.0 and Agent's Last Exam

The launch line-up on three white tiles: the Raven app icon with Raven Max and Raven Flash, the DCode disc with DCode 1.0, and the d.. mark with api.dipoleml.com.

Frontier Intelligence, Canadian Values: Dipole ML Inc. Officially Launches Raven and DCode

The Toronto skyline faint in the haze across Lake Ontario at sunrise, dark rocks on the shore, with our d.. mark and the two dates of the record: 2026-09-27, when we announced the launch, and 2026-10-01, when it happened.

Dipole ML Inc. Announces Upcoming October 1 Launch of Canadian Frontier Intelligence